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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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