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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these fascinating new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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