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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning are enabling humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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