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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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