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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions must deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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