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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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