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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in digital education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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