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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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