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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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