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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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