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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always 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 subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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