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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the 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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