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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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