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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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