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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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