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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online 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 institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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