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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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