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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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