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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? 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 institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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