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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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