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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in electronic education technology have enabled students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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