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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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