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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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