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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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