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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? 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 British Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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