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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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