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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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