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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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