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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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