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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education have empowered students all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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