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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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