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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning have empowered learners all over the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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