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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online learning technology enable humans all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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