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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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