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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. 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 MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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