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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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