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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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