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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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