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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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