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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational ventures. Scientists want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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