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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not 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 education institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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