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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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