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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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