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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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