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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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