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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. 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. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Niue to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better understand these new open education endeavours. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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