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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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