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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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