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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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