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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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