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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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