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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to be more aware of these significant new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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