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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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