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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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