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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free 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 several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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