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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the 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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