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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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