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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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