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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students 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 a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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