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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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