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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? 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 Mali to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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