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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning make it possible for students 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. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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