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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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