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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are typically free 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 many subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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