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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition