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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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