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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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