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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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