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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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