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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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