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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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