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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in elearning enable students all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance 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 be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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