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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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