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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. 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. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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