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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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