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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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