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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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