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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? 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 in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Educators want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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