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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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