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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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