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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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