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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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