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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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