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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. 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 massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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