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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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