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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Serbia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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