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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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