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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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