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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education have enabled students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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