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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are considering now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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