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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. 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 educators certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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