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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in online learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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