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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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 massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to understand these important new open education undertakings. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies 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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