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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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