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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mayotte to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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