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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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