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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because 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 ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition