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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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