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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Anguilla to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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