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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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