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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online education have empowered students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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