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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in online education are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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