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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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