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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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