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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open 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 institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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