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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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