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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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