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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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