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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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