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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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