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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free 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 a variety of issues that elearning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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