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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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