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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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