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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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