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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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