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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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