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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? 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 Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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