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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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