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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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