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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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