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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational initiatives. Universities want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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