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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? 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 South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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