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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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