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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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