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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed 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 business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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