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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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