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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to understand these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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