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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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