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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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