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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different 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 optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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