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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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