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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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