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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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