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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are empowering students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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