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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also examines the 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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