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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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