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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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