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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also explores 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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