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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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