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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning enable students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 elearning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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