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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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