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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? 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 Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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