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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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