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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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