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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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