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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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