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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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