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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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