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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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