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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators 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 business models are being used by organizations like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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