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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better grasp these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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