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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified 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 strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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