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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Professors want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important 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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