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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic educational technology enable students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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