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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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