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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend these fascinating new open education undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This gripping new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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