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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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