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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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