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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Libya to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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