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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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