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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic educational technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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