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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers 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 models are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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