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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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