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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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