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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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