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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies 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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