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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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