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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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