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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving 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 stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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