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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Teachers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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