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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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