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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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