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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online learning have empowered learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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