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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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