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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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