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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in elearning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better understand these new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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