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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. 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. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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