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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have enabled humans all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to understand these open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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