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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the key 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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