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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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