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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Anguilla to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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