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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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