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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? 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 organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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