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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? 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 Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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