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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand these compelling new open education initiatives. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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