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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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