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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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