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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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