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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in elearning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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