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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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