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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these new open education initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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