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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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