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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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