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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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