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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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