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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning are making it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. 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 stakeholders assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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