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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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