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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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