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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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