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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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