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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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