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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to understand these open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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