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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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