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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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