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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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