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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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