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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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