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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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