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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Uzbekistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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