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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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