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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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