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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors 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 business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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