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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources