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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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