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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic education technology enable learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates 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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