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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also describes the 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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