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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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