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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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