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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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