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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? 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 institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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