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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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