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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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