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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Poland to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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