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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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