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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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