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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free 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 numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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