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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning make it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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