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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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