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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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