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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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