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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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