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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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