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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business 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 teachers deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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