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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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