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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable humans all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Spain to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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