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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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