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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online 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 organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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