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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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