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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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