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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified 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 teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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