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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. 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 educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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