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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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