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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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