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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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