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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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