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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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