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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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