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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning technology make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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