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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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