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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are free for students 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 many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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