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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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