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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? 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 organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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