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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have made it possible for students all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of these open education experiments. Trainers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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