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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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