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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. 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 online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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