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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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