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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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