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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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