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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning are empowering students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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