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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the major 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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