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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to better understand these significant new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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