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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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