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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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