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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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