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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily 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 quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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