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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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