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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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