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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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