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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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