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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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