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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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