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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are considering now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? 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 institutions like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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