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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. 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. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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