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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)