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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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