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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open education undertakings. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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