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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning make it possible for students all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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