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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free 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 many topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vatican City to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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