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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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