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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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