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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This sensational new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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