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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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