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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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