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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting 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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