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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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