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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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