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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational ventures. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important 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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