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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online education have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education