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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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