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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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