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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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