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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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