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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning enable learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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