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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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