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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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