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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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