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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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