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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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