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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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