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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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