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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key 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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