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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also discusses 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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