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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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