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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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