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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major 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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