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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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