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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education ventures. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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