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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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