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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources