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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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