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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also investigates 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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