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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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