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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology are empowering humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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