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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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