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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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