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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers 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 strategies are being used by organizations like China, People's Republic of to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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