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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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