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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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