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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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