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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? 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 organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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