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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified 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 models are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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