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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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