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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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