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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators 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 strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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