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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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