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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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