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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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