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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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