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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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