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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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