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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning make it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the key 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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