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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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