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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning make it possible for people all around the world to take part 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. MOOCs are ordinarily free 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 a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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