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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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