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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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