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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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