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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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