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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like New Caledonia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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