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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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