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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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