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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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