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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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