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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in electronic education technology enable learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Mozambique to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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