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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online classes. 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 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 a variety of issues that elearning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

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