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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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