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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. 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 classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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