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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Pakistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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