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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that educators 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 strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to understand these compelling new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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