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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 Midway Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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