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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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