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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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