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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning enable learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand these open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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