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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are enabling learners all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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