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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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