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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also analyzes the key 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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