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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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