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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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