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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled learners all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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