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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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