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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee 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 strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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