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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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