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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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