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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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