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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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