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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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