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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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