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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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