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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? 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 University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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