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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning are enabling learners all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open education endeavours. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the most important 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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