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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key 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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