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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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