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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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