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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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