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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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