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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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