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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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