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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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