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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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