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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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