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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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