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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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