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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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