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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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