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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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