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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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