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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in elearning are empowering people all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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