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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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