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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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