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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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