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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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