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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes 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 ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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