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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Professors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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