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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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