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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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