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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology enable students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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