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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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