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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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