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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in e-learning have made it possible for students all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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