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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling students all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also studies 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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