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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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