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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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