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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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