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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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