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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers 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 business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the major 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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