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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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