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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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