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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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