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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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