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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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