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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Finland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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