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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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