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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC 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 Oman to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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