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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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