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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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