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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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