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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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