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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. People want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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