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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? 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 Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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