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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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