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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online 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 Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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