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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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