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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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