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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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