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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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