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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Virginia to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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