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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational undertakings. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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