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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating 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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