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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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