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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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