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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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