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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses 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 organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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