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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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