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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? 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 institutions like Bangladesh to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this growing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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