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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always 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 quite a few issues that elearning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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