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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning enable learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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