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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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