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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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