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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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