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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology enable students all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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