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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are enabling students in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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