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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are making it possible for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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