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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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