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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models 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 stakeholders handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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