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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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