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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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