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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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