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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning have empowered students all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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