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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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