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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in blended learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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