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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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