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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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