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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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