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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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