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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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