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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes 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. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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