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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning have enabled students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these open education endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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