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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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