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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning have empowered students all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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