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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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