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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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