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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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