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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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