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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to better understand these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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