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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in elearning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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