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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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