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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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