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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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