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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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