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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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