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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always 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 several topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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