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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in elearning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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