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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in blended learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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