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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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