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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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