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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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