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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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