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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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