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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are making it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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