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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners certify that teachers 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 business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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