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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers 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 institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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