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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in e-learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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