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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education have enabled students in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online 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 organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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