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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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