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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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