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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that lecturers 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 strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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