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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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