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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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