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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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