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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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