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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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