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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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