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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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