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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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