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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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