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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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