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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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