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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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