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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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