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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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