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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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