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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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