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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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