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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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