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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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