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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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