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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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