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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students ensure 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 institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education undertakings. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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