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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in elearning make it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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