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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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