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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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