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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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