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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education initiatives. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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